What Do I Do if I Don’t Speak the Language of The Interviewee?
What do you do if you don’t speak or understand the language of the interviewee? Again, it depends. One of the fundamentals of workplace investigations though, is that people be able to express their concerns and people, sometimes because of language skills, and sometimes because of anxiety, and sometimes because of the way victimization affects […]
What Do I Do if I Don’t Understand an Interviewee’s Answers?
What do you do if you, as the interviewer or the investigator, are too embarrassed to talk about the topic to be investigated? Simply stated, you need to get off the investigation. There’s really no way around it because if you can’t engage with the subject matter comfortably and robustly, you are not going to […]
What Do I Do if I Don’t Have Familiarity with The Industry Being Investigated?
What do you do if you don’t understand the industry you’re being asked to investigate? You are not usually being asked to learn about an industry, you’re typically being asked to learn about human behaviors. And obviously, the financial pressures and character types that are drawn to certain industries are going to influence the nature […]
